Few would have predicted it would still be sitting there on her birthday six weeks later.

The song has been the biggest hit of the year from a female artist – no mean feat when established superstars Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus are both promoting their new albums.

2. Blogging about it

The 17-year-old singer contemplated her new age in a typically artful poston her Tumblr blog.

She reminisced about last year’s celebrations, when her friends came over to “eat cake and ruffle my hair and talk about pokemon”, before taking stock of her rise from obscurity to global stardom.

“this time last year i was making a soundcloud, and a twitter, and a tumblr, all in the name lorde. i had no clue what was going to happen with the music. i hoped it’d be alright.

“last night, i played to a room of people whose names i worship, breathe like fine gold smoke, reverent. there is a lot of stupid shit that comes with being lucky enough to do what i do – a lot of stuff i’d rather skip, if i could – but i wouldn’t have traded last night for anything. i felt so warm in the arms of these legends who are good enough to have faith in me.”

Lorde said she planned to spend her birthday walking around New York listening to Stevie Nicks and Broken Social Scene and muttering under her breath about her plans for the future.

3. Reading in bed with Eleanor Catton

Lorde capped off her celebrations by hanging out in bed with Man Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton.

New York-based Kiwi Gemma Gracewood posted photos to Twitter of the two celebrated Kiwis catching up.

4. Getting political

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio got in on the festivities for Lorde’s birthday.

The new elected mayor walked on stage for his victory speech as Royalsblared in the background.

5. Meeting Bowie and Tilda Swinton

Lorde performed to a star studded audience Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit in New York as her birthday approached.

Afterward she posed for a photo with none other than David Bowie and one of her idols, Tilda Swinton.

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Lindsay Lohan is reportedly being sued for her2012 car crash on Pacific Coast Highway in California.

As Gossip Cop reported at the time, the starlet was behind the wheel of a Porsche when she rammed into a truck in front of her.

Lohan later tried to claim she wasn’t driving, and was eventually charged with lying to police and reckless driving, a case in which she pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 90 days in a locked rehab facility earlier this year.

Now truck driver James Johnson – who claimedthat the incident was Lohan’s fault — is suing the actress over alleged injuries sustained in the accident, plus mental anguish.

Cops arrested Lohan at around 4 a.m. outside the club, and she was charged with assault.

A source tells E! News that the woman LiLo allegedly clocked is a tourist visiting from West Palm Beach, Fla., and was at the club with her husband. The source also claims that the star had been banned from the club previously.

Lohan was subsequently released from custody shortly before 8 a.m., covering herself with a black jacket as she left the precinct. Authorities say they expect Lohan to be issued a desk-appearance ticket.

It’s the latest legal headache for the embattled comebacking star, who was also arrested in early September for allegedly swiping a man with her car at another downtown Manhattan club, and, a few weeks later, was allegedly assaulted at a New York City hotel.

“I was trying to get Dina on board with me for a long time but especially the last two weeks,” he added. “If she had, this wouldn’t have happened. Lindsay is acting out in numerous ways because she needs us, and internally she’s hurt and angry. Again, it’s all on Dina, and I wish to God she would stop and resolve things with us to do the same for our children.”

Earlier in the morning he also took to Twitter to offer general parenting advice in the wake of LiLo’s bust-up.

“This is for ALL parents who go or went thru the same! Please don’t make the mistakes!,” he wrote.

Middle-earth mania was in full force as an estimated 100,000 Kiwis turned out to hailPeter Jackson and stars Martin Freeman,Hugo Weaving, Andy Serkis and Cate Blanchett at the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Wednesday night in the New Zealand capital of Wellington.

The blockbuster, the first installment of a new trilogy that’s serving as a prequel to the director’s trio of Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings films, earned rave reviews from those in attendance at its first showing at the Embassy Theatre, whose entrance was decorated to look like a Hobbit house.

Excited fans—many of whom wore homemade hobbit feet, elven cloaks and wizard costumes—cheered as Jackson and company walked a massive red carpet. Along with new cast members including Richard Armitage, who plays the dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield, were veterans of the first trilogy, among them Elijah Wood, who briefly reprises his role as Frodo in The Hobbit and lavished praise on Freeman in the lead as Bilbo Baggins.

“He was brilliant, the right amount of funny,” Wood told The Hollywood Reporter. “He has strange qualities but also real heart. He is the heart of the movie, and he really pulled it off.”

For his part, Jackson was extremely humbled by The Hobbit‘s reception.

“It’s great to have so many people come out to celebrate the movie,” the filmmaker told the New York Daily News. “It’s very humbling. New Zealand is a very small country, it’s a very young country. I just think we like to celebrate when we punch above our weight. We sometimes do quite well in sports, and now we’re doing OK in moviemaking too.”

It was quite a welcome switch-up from the mood a few hours earlier at a Hobbit press conference, where Jackson again denied claims that two-dozen animals died during production due to poor conditions on a farm where they were housed.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters in the U.S. on Dec. 14.

Genevieve Sabourin, who has insisted that she had a romantic relationship with the 30 Rock star, was arrested and jailed for as-yet undisclosed reasons following a hearing this morning in New York Supreme Court, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office confirms to E! News.

“Why am I being arrested?” Sabourin was heard saying as officers cuffed her before she could leave the courtroom.

During the hearing, a new attorney was appointed to Sabourin after her previous lawyer asked to be removed, telling the judge that she was behind on payments and wasn’t taking counsel’s advice about not speaking to the media about her case.

Sabourin, who met Baldwin on the set of The Adventures of Pluto Nash roughly a decade ago, was arrested in April on suspicion of aggravated harassment and stalking.

She was released on her own recognizance but the judge issued a restraining order requiring the French-Canadian actress to stay away from the Emmy winner, whom she claims proposed to her via email days after he announced his engagement to his current wife, Hilaria.

And, once again, the tale is fiction. A Kardashian family source confirms to E! News that the longtime couple are not engaged, contrary to the latest Star magazine cover blasting news of their betrothal.

Kourtney and Scott took a family vacation to Paris last week—but their romantic moments involved things like kissing along the banks of the Seine rather than kneeling down to pop questions.

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